Hello Deadsiders!

Patch Notes:

New Years Event:

• Added holiday weapon skins into loot pools
• Added Christmas/New Years decorations and new seasonal items! Check out the Kamensk town square to find gifts under the tree!
• Added seasonal items into lootable road bags

Base Building & Raiding:

• New “Scheduled Raid” option; raiding is only enabled at specific times during the day. Can be configured on community servers. A few official servers will be deployed with this setting shortly after the update is released.
• Rebalanced the cost of base upgrades, nails and rebar are no longer required
• Slowed down the decay rate of Plank and Metal base structures
• Less planks are required for base upkeep
• Plank and Metal base structures can no longer be damaged by melee and firearms. Only grenades, Dynamite, Explosive Charges, and the GRM-40 grenade launcher can deal damage
• Fixed the issue with the base lock where the code had to be entered after each death or relog
• Notifications will now appear showing why a structure cannot be placed when building
• Added new dynamite and explosive spawners into road bags and trunks
• Increased base auto-turret HP from 100 to 500, and shotgun trap HP from 100 to 250. (Turrets you have already built will require repair to reach the new HP)
• Players who are not registered to a base will no longer be able to remove ammo from turrets
• Removed building blockers from rivers
• Reduced the cost of creating a base lock
• Shotgun turrets now requires half the parts to produce
• Changed the recipe for repairing decorative items; paint and duct tape are now required
• Radio stations now require significantly fewer parts to craft
• Changing your Steam nickname no longer un-authorizes your from a base
• Fixed the issue where the water collector's current status was not displayed
• Fixed an issue where gates/shutters/doors submerged in the ground did not take damage from C4, dynamite, or grenades.
• Structures constructed outside of the vault radius will display a decay warning when looked at
• Straight Stairs no longer require branches for upkeep once upgraded to Plank or Metal.

Other Changes:

• Added new and improved BB-19 model
• Reduced water consumption by 20%
• Rebar can now be recycled into scrap metal by using a metal planer
• Increased the activation chance of scrap piles
• Increased airdrop fall duration by 5x, giving players more time to contest the event
• Rebalanced the airdrop; can now drop seasonal items, dynamite sticks, laptops, and tinctures
• Reduced the HP of turrets in bunkers
• Added the ability to transfer your sleeping bag to a Steam friend if they are logged into the same server
• Sleeping bags are now twice as cheap, but have 50 HP instead of 100
• Safezone traders can now buy your watches and cigarettes for reputation, and dogtags for money
• Paint kits are no longer required to skin items
• Safezone workbenches no longer require money to repair, disassemble, or skin items
• Reduced vehicle noise, and adjusted vehicle noise at a distance.
• Restored the sound to the duck call
• Fixed missing hints in inventory
• Shotguns are prohibited from dealing headshots if only one pellet hits the head. Now a pellet hit to the head will deal 25 damage. This will reduce the amount of lucky headshots from a distance.
• Crafting more than one item at a time will now take the same amount of time as crafting just one item
• Vehicles no longer deal collision damage to you for a full second after exiting them, preventing unnecessary accidental deaths
• Added sounds for ATM operations

Thanks for reading, happy holidays!